[yocto] which is the *official* yocto "download" page?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Tue Dec 25 11:16:53 PST 2012


  the poky.ent file in the docs defines this:

<!ENTITY YOCTO_DL_URL "http://downloads.yoctoproject.org">

while elsewhere (but i don't remember where) this is described as the
downloads page:

https://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads

which does not take you to the same place.

  and just to add to the confusion, the current dev manual contains
(in section 2.2):

"Tarball Extraction: If you are not going to contribute back into the
Yocto Project, you can simply download a Yocto Project release you
want from the website’s download page."

where the link is http://www.yoctoproject.org/download, which
redirects you here:

https://www.yoctoproject.org/download/yocto-project-13-poky-80

  so that's three different "download" pages so far.

rday

p.s.  IMHO, any reference to a generic "download" page should take you
to a single top-level download URL *under* which all downloads and
downloading info can be found.  it should *not* take you to a sub-page
of, say, poky tarballs, unless the link specifically *says* it's to
the download directory of poky tarballs.  i refer, of course, to that
third example above.


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